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Psychosomatic Medicine, Vol 59, Issue 5 477-480, Copyright © 1997 by American Psychosomatic Society

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Age, testosterone, and behavior among female prison inmates

JM Dabbs Jr and MF Hargrove
Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta 30303, USA. jdabbs@gsu.edu

OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was to determine how testosterone levels, both alone and interacting with age, were associated with criminal behavior and institutional behavior among female prison inmates. METHOD: Subjects were 87 female inmates in a maximum security state prison. Criminal behavior was scored from court records. Institutional behavior was scored from prison records and interviews with staff members. Testoster-one levels were scored from radioimmunoassay of saliva samples. RESULTS: Product-moment correlations revealed first-order relationships among age, testosterone, criminal behavior, and institutional behavior. Structural equation analysis suggested a causal model in which age leads to lower testosterone, which in turn leads to less violent crime and less aggressive dominance in prison. CONCLUSION: Testosterone is related to criminal violence and aggressive dominance in prison among women, as has been reported among men. Changes in these behaviors with age are in part explained by a decline in testosterone levels.


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